How to Use still life in a Sentence

still life

noun

• She prefers portraiture to still life.
• What this translates to is a lot of skulls and mirrors and still lifes.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• That is a book on still life painting that rocked my world.
  — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022
• This is in contrast with the very smooth fluid brushwork of the rest of the still life scene.
  — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• The still life in the kitchen is by Laura Letinsky, who is Canadian.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2018
• For a brief moment, the scene transformed into a black-and-white still life.
  — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2022
• Porter was a renowned still life artist in the 19th and early 20th Century.
  — courant.com, 25 Feb. 2022
• But in the inbetween, there are so many polaroids of still life with John.
  — Holly Gleason, cleveland, 9 Apr. 2020
• The roasting machine is on display in the back half of the space, with sacks of beans laid out in a kind of still life (with surfboard).
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• What led you to focus on portraits, still life and landscapes in your work?
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2022
• A lot of your pieces have a lot of movement, but this was more of a still life with the Lombardi Trophy.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2023
• In tandem, a rise in still life painting of flowers grew.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2018
• If there is still life in the device, the data is wiped and the item is refurbished for reuse.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
• Ruysch made a name for herself by painting still life works of flowers, such as the one hung in the Gallery of Honour.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2021
• Streaming is now the center of the TV universe, but there’s still life out there in the network quadrants.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 20 May 2021
• Critics described it as a modern take on a Dutch still life.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
• Drawing and Painting Do some still life paintings and portraits in the yard.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 16 June 2020
• The beige, black, and natural toned pieces were inspired by 1940s ink drawings of day-to-day still lifes.
  — Elle Decor Editors, ELLE Decor, 22 Apr. 2023
• Most people would have seen a standard-issue still life of fruit.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 June 2023
• If his dreams had taken the night train, and the train had crashed with none of them surviving, there was still life after death.
  — The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021
• The entire wall by the bed is consumed by a picture window framing a not-so-still life of the forest.
  — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2020
• The camera transmits an image of a still life to a monitor.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2015
• In the vein of the Dutch still life, the composition has its memento mori, here an hourglass.
  — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2020
• Last year, this cheeky series about the undead was among the crop of new shows proving that there's still life left in the network sitcom.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2022
• So Keynes bought a Cézanne for himself—a superb still life of seven apples—for about £370.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
• Griesedieck compared her mural to a still life painting.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2022
• The 2,000-year-old still life features an ornate goblet of wine, fruit and other items in front of a black background.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
• And in the basement, cops found that still life of Tom's world, interrupted by madness.
  — CBS News, 2 June 2018
• Behind the counter, desserts like Key lime bars ($5) and big cookies with sprinkles ($3.50) are stacked high like something out of a Baroque still life.
  — Remy Tumin, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• Dark cabinet lowers and storage columns pick up on the dark green in the still life but don't overwhelm the room.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 9 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024